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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles. See "Published Works" on the web version for citations.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Saturday, October 08, 2016

Data Dump Part N

Here's another data dump of links that are accumulating on my screen. It's sadly a target-rich environment out there.

Given that Venezuela managed to tank their economy with stupid (but bizarrely appealing to too many) socialist policies, I suppose it isn't impossible that Iran could tank their economy with corruption despite the influx of money that the Iran deal provided the nutball mullahs.

North Korea seems to be at a new level of collapse-watch, but Lord knows if this is really it (and will it be regime collapse or nation collapse?) considering that post-Cold War North Korea seems to descend to new levels of "can you believe that regime still creaks along?" levels every few years.

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed socialist paradise Sweden is now an exporter of jihadis. So how many just remain in Sweden? The article highlights the appropriately named Gothenburg suburb of "Angered." No doubt.

This author argues that military combatant commands are obsolete in light of the multiple non-military security tasks we must cope with around the world. The latter is true enough, but why are the combatant commands considered responsible for the new tasks when we have a whole big civilian government to address them while still having sufficient military tasks to occupy the combatant command commanders? Perhaps the author is right, but it isn't readily apparent to me. I'll need more convincing. After all, Task Force Smith (which the author raised as a cautionary tale) wasn't destroyed because it was obsolete in an organizational sense.

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.

Of course, it is quite possible that my failure to use Facebook and Twitter has handicapped me in getting an audience. Or it may be an additional issue. I may be a blogosaur!